Patriot and union vol 1 no. 13

Salt Lake City in Ruins.
The Daily Adrain (Michigan) Watchtower, of the 31st of October, acknowledges the receipt of and publishes an " extra" from the St. Louis Press, in which it is stated, under date of Fort Laraurie, October 19, that the train which ar-rived at that place from Great Salk Lake, which left on the 12th of September, brings accounts of an awful earthquake, which took place on 11th of that month. We have seen no account elsewhere of the reported event, and therefore we are inclined to doubt its truth, However, the article to which we have above referred, says:
"The shock continued to increase until 11 P. M., when the great promontory on the opposite side of the Lake, at Flat Rock Point, slid from its base into the Lake, driving the water before it in an enormous wave, to the opposide shore, where it speedily mounted to the top of of the first stories, confining the inhabitants to their chambers.
About one hundred houses, containing chiefly women and children, were thus surrounded.—The shrieks of the women and children were appalling.
"The rumbling of the earthquake, and the shouts and yells of the frenzied multitude, with the roaring of the waters, all formed a season of painlul excitement," says our informant, such as he never witnessed before. To add to the hor-rors of the night, a heavy thunder storm with rain and wind came up, and the water rose still higher. Boats and rafts constructed of anything which was most readily to be found, p'ied back and forth in the midst of the storm, and until an early hour next morning; and by great exertions on the part of the husbands. fathers and broth-rs, the woman and their children were rescued from danger. This part of the city is occupied by the dwellings used by the numerous wives of the better class of citizens, with their offspring. Towards morning the water receded, and the shocks ceased.
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The oposite side of the lake presented a strange sight. The high, flat promontory had slid into the lake, crumbling as it went, and fil-ling it up to considerable height with pieces of rock and large numbers of small trees, under-brush, &c., mixed with the earth upon which they had grown. The portion of the lake thus filled up cannot be less than a mile long, and three quarters wide, as well as could be judg-ed, from the distance.

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Salt Lake City in Ruins.
The Daily Adrain (Michigan) Watchtower, of the 31st of October, acknowledges the receipt of and publishes an " extra" from the St. Louis Press, in which it is stated, under date of Fort Laraurie, October 19, that the train which ar-rived at that place from Great Salk Lake, which left on the 12th of September, brings accounts of an awful earthquake, which took place on 11th of that month. We have seen no account elsewhere of the reported event, and therefore we are inclined to doubt its truth, However, the article to which we have above referred, says:
"The shock continued to increase until 11 P. M., when the great promontory on the opposite side of the Lake, at Flat Rock Point, slid from its base into the Lake, driving the water before it in an enormous wave, to the opposide shore, where it speedily mounted to the top of of the first stories, confining the inhabitants to their chambers.
About one hundred houses, containing chiefly women and children, were thus surrounded.—The shrieks of the women and children were appalling.
"The rumbling of the earthquake, and the shouts and yells of the frenzied multitude, with the roaring of the waters, all formed a season of painlul excitement," says our informant, such as he never witnessed before. To add to the hor-rors of the night, a heavy thunder storm with rain and wind came up, and the water rose still higher. Boats and rafts constructed of anything which was most readily to be found, p'ied back and forth in the midst of the storm, and until an early hour next morning; and by great exertions on the part of the husbands. fathers and broth-rs, the woman and their children were rescued from danger. This part of the city is occupied by the dwellings used by the numerous wives of the better class of citizens, with their offspring. Towards morning the water receded, and the shocks ceased.
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The oposite side of the lake presented a strange sight. The high, flat promontory had slid into the lake, crumbling as it went, and fil-ling it up to considerable height with pieces of rock and large numbers of small trees, under-brush, &c., mixed with the earth upon which they had grown. The portion of the lake thus filled up cannot be less than a mile long, and three quarters wide, as well as could be judg-ed, from the distance.